Hymns, #736

Various Aspects of the Inner Life - The Law of Life

Eng/Kor:736  Chin:532  Span:308  Rus:426  Tag:736  Fra:-  Por:339

Lyrics:Witness Lee
Music:Ralph Harrison
Meter:8.8.8.8.

Hymns using same tune:

#81 (Tune 1), #609, #942, #1322

 
 1 

In ancient times the law of God

In letter was engraved on stone;

But now it is a law of life,

Which in our heart is written down.

 
 2 

The law in letters good demands

And thus our utter weakness shows;

But now the law of life sustains,

And strength for God to please bestows.

 
 3 

The law in letters brings to us

God's knowledge only outwardly;

But now the law of life supplies

A deeper knowledge inwardly.

 
 4 

The law in letters can but rule

By dead commandments outwardly;

But now the law of life controls

By living knowledge inwardly.

 
 5 

This living law is moving now

In all of our experience,

To regulate us from within

And check us by our inner sense.

 
 6 

How deep its regulation is

Within the inmost part of us,

A living consciousness to give,

And God Himself impart to us.

 
 7 

'Tis by this living law of life

We need no teaching outwardly,

For all God's living knowledge now

This law will teach us inwardly.

 
 8 

Lord, teach us by this law to walk,

Its inner ruling to obey,

That we may of Thyself partake

And know Thee in a living way.

 
Hymn #736